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I''m sure this is easy since rails does this internally, but I need to convert a string of url formatted variables "foo=bar&baz=snoo&why=because" to a hash, and I need to convert a hash to url format. Now before I roll my own methods to do this, does rails expose this functionality somehow? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I''ve been trying to figure this out by myself and while I feel I''ve made some progress, I feel kind of stuck. Let me see if I can explain what I''m trying to do. I have a very simple form with a text box and a text area. The text in each of these will eventually make it into a row in a table in my database. For now, the value in the text box represents a